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Headquartered in Phoenix, FSLR is a $5.9 billion company. The story starts in 2008 when FSLR was a $317/share company. Shortly thereafter I warned everyone to put on some sunscreen and run for shade from FSLR.

It finally landed last year at $11/share. Today it's back at $60/share. FSLR has been a big winner over the past 12 months.

But the people who talk about how well the solar stocks are doing seem to leave out FSLR's history beyond a year, from $317 down to $11 and back to $60.

I could make the argument that this stock has simply dropped from $317 to $60, down 250 points over the last five years. (Oops, I just did.) Let's not forget that. But other momentum investors would say they don't care about anything besides 2013. They love solar: It's the future!

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app is an equal opportunity investor. It has no opinion on whether solar, wind or oil is the future. All it does is look at the short-term, intermediate, and long-term performance, as well as the valuation and stock chart. So let's do that.

Performance

I know FSLR has had a terrific 12 months, but what about the last 60? We can't just put on our blacked-out, oversized sunglasses and ignore them. We still need to be able to look at, clearly, this period of time in FSLR's history.

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